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Cool BASIC tricks and tips!Following on from Dunny's excellent suggestion of a compendium of BASIC tips + tricks, I believe it would be better to have a topic dedicated to it. …
[QUOTE=Battle Bunny;553883]Does BASin include an assembler, or does the "BAS" indicate "BASIC ... assembler and other tools in BASin. Some of them are little ... good. Seriously I cannot recommend BASin highly enough if you want ... -
problems with rndGot past the whole INKEY$ issue and now am trying to pin down the combat section of the game. got a basic combat routine however, when i try and gen…
[QUOTE=Battle Bunny;645519]Remember, BASin has a profiling option. Select " ... can be compared, either overall or down to individual statements.[/QUOTE ... -
DIM DATA and the likeSo...I'm trying to work out arrays in BASIC a bit more and have knocked up the following quick test bed to fiddle about with before trying anything m…
Firstly Battle Bunny DOES use sorcery in his code, but ... -
Model Railway Timetable Version 1.4.12.0313...Hi Folks, Since November 2010 I have been working on my [B]Model Railway Timetable [/B]software. Thanks to the considerable help and patience of yo…
... Until I came across [B]BASin [/B]I was not too ... Samuels)
* Memory move routine (Battle Bunny)
* New random number generator ... tricks to reduce memory and/or increase performance. Getting the ... potential tool that I could use on my layout (Hollerton ... -
The curious case of the vanishing zerosRight, I'm back for more help guys This time I think I've figured out the code ok....but still it fails - well it works but only once... Basically …
[QUOTE=Battle Bunny;595851]I tried ... . Each RUN in BASin stripped the leftmost digit ... want to use BIN, don't use BASin (or the version ... your programs independently of BASin; if they produce the ... /> FYI..
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Generating a constant of 2?Hi Folks, Through "The Wizard of WOS" I learnt that you can generate constants as follows: [B]NOT PI=0 SGN PI=1 INT PI=3[/B] Is there a quick way …
[QUOTE=Battle Bunny;604861]I apply a ... -kF for 10-15 or kA-kZ for 1-26 ... a use count of 10.
[QUOTE=Battle Bunny;604861] ... memory.
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Also, if there ... blind to its capabilities. BASin has shown me what Sinclair ... -
Keyboard problem...Hi Folks, I have hit a problem in MRT and I cannot see how to get around it. Please allow me to explain. I have a list of items from which one can…
[QUOTE=Battle Bunny;618825]If:
DEF FN ... $=k$)
then any key (or "no key") wait can be ... . :smile: Alas I cannot use FNs in BASin. :cry:
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Need to scroll one column using m.c.I've used many of the available routines to scroll the entire screen in any direction, but I'm not being able to find one that would allow me to scro…
... Hendrix tunes... I would probably use sampled instruments as well. It ... techno, classical or the usual chip music.
@Battle Bunny: Many thanks ... . I shall fire up BASIn and give ... -
WibbleBibble's Basic threadHi in an attempt to keep my questions from spamming the forum. I think its better to put them all in one place. Thanks everyone so far, I feel I am …
[QUOTE=Battle Bunny;646854]a: Maintaining a ... every five seconds (roughly), or for an even rougher ... checking 23672 either. The BASin profiler could be used to ... but its nice to use a common routine for ... movement, all either with or without fire being pressed, ... -
SAVE writing zeros after program?Hi there! I hope this is the right forum, but I didn't find any other more appropriate... I'm trying to recover some very old tapes with stuff I mad…
... are then lost when I use bas2tap. The code that generates ... garbage within or after the code. I'll try Battle Bunny's code ... hangs... so I guess garbage (or zeros) are really appended in ... .
I'll try BASin - although I wanted to do ... -
Books that you just can't quit.Much as parts of the presentation,writing style infurates me, there is a book I just keep comming back to again and again. Its like the Yang to the …
[QUOTE=Battle Bunny;718895]If 'key' was ... (7 frames according to BASin), so don't put ... whenever possible (eg. A$=""). Use literal numbers for GOTOs/GOSUBs ... 9.9 secs according to BASin, whereas doing the same ... either all upper case or all lower case letters so ... -
BASin Release 11 out nowBASin has been updated once again, for your BASIC programming pleasure! Get it at: [url="http://homepage.ntlworld.com/paul.dunn4/BASin_r11.exe"]htt…
... Added - Very basic help on BASin, and the entire 48k Spectrum ... on from the context menu, BASin now support variable inspector tooltips ... br />
Added - Frame Skipping. BASin can now be configured to ... when you enter a line or use a : seperator rather than ... -
Anybody remember tv serial circa 81-83Battle Bunny's query inspired me to try the same. Countless searching on IMDB has not been met with success. I think the serial was on around 6 in …
Battle Bunny's query inspired me to ... had suffered a nervous breakdown or suchlike and was spending some ... developing a powerful laser (to use for some sort of hostile ... -
Hello WOS will or Should Basin be meged with SPINHi I have decided to post after reading these forums for months and as the title suggests is it Dunny's intention to merge Basin with Spin when he is…
... Dunny's intention to merge Basin with Spin when he is ... happy with it or will they stay separate utility ... ...You lot...think the same or should they be separate.
CrusoePlease add the following "known errors" description for game [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0002872"]Crusoe[/URL]: [QUOTE]Bu…
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[QUOTE]Bugfix provided by Battle Bunny:
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[*]The game ... due to JPs being one or two bytes off their correct ... map sections and had to use his "Elyxr" frequently. There were ...Random-Access to Microdrive FileI am working on a BASIC program to backup a microdrive text-file to standard tape array-file. To backup a text-file from one microdrive to a secon…
... so I tried to use some four array-files ... S$. Many thanks to Battle Bunny's post https://www.worldofspectrum ... the trick using DEFADD as Battle Bunny did.
... [b]R-1[/b] or 255 to access the sector ... is also subroutine 1100 I use to overwrite the [i ...Scan of cassettes.Ludicrous or a neglected part of the conservation effort? I just sent Martijn scans of inlay, instructions [I]and[/I] the cassette of Gryzor. I sta…
... 2006-01-21 13:15, Battle Bunny wrote:
A couple of ... the bulb. Maybe I'll use a digital camera from now ... games where I have three or more copies it's difficult ...The Adv. Game I'm Ridiculously Trying To Play Part 1Ok, from now on from time to time I will start playing some adventure games and I will keep a "journal" in the forum about my progression, or, more p…
... 've died :-)
[quote=Battle Bunny]Wasn't it Secret of ... pick the lock left outside - or was that Simon the Sorcerer ... a cell, don't you use the bone in the next ...Secret Of St. Bride'sI recently bought a copy of Secret Of St. Bride's (excellent game by the way) and the inlay says that it was distributed by Audiogenic (I always thou…
... it into the shops. One or more of authoring, publishing, ... not distributors.
[quote=Battle Bunny] However, I can't help ... the inlay card in the use of the apostrophe, as " ... of the inlay, loading, title or in-game screens, magazine references ...Question about Type-ins and OCR.Hi guys. I've never used OCR software before (yep, I've been living in a cave). What software do you guys use when you want to send something to Arj…
[QUOTE=Battle Bunny;174477]There's a [b] ... wonder if it's possible or not, so... erm.. would it ... this page into Photoshop or Paint.NET or something similar and either ... the front hopefully) remain? Or maybe even use the magic wand select ...PowerballBy which I mean one of those little exercise gizmos with the gyroscope inside, and which has comprehensively defeated all my efforts to make it funct…
[QUOTE=Battle Bunny;230638]That's a very ... possible before you try to "use" it. It should be fairly ... speed. This requires minimal effort or speed of movement. 8-)
or drawer somewhere, but I'm ...Game EditorsWell as the title says, this is a query about game editors, specifically the ones for Gremlin games... Many moons ago, Your Sinclair published (I th…
[QUOTE=Battle Bunny;237200]There's a [url= ... to do one that could use the level packer / unpacker of ... Death enemies in, or use different coloured walls or choose the start position ... it if you want to use it. Not so hard I ...The most expensive Spectrum program?What Spectrum game or utility cost the most money to buy? I seem to remember seeing a review for a horse race prediction program for ?80 or so, in Si…
[quote=Battle Bunny;240688]I believe that Infoseek ... 'd need to either merge or cross-reference the two databases ... which just appear in one or the other database. Merging is ... to keep them separate and use union queries.[/quote]
The 7th GuestI've been playing this recently (this game sold at an amazing RRP of ?70 back in 1992!) with DOSbox (an excellent utility); and eventually managed to…
[QUOTE=Battle Bunny;285335]I've been playing ... puzzles; plus I had to use the automatic solve feature for ... it from HOTU about 3 or 4 years ago.
Firefox spookI've only recently started using Firefox 2, just occasionally, and as I have a dial-up connection I've noticed something peculiar with it, in that ev…
[QUOTE=Battle Bunny;289963]Hmm, well, I left ... 'd forgotten about which may or may not be related to ... , not if you want to use a site that only has ...Browser security questionIf a browser has all plugins disabled, and all features with "Java", "script", "active", "X" or "cookie" in their name disabled, would there still be…
[QUOTE=Battle Bunny;312569]If a browser has ... with "Java", "script", "active", "X" or "cookie" in their name disabled ... ? Could you browse most sites or did you run into problems ... that many sites these days use a lot of these less ...Morrowind lost objectsPlaying Morrowind, I've left a couple of quest items somewhere and I can't remember where I've put them. Is there any way to find out where they are?…
... also tells you how to use the console that is if ... />
[QUOTE=Battle Bunny;340465]Playing Morrowind, I've ... them in a chest somewhere, or else sold them not realising ...
